Deceit Quotes

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With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit. — Gautama Buddha
If a man's thoughts are muddy, If he is reckless and full of deceit, How can he wear the yellow robe? Whoever is master of… — Gautama Buddha
The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and… — Pierre-Paul Grasse
The eyes mirror the heart of a person. An entire life can be seen through them. Love, sorrow, deceit, pain. If you look closely, itâ€™s… — Gail Tsukiyama
It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit. — William Makepeace Thackeray
We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures. We succeeded because the time was right and the news… — Bernard Nathanson
War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was… — George W. Bush
We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit. — Evelyn Waugh
Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It… — Sigmund Freud
For the Lord touched all parts of creation, and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit. — Athanasius of Alexandria
The American Fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.... They cultivate hate and distrust of both Britain and Russia.… — Henry A. Wallace
The verdicts today should send the message that within the police department there is no greater betrayal of the badge and of the brotherhood than… — Loretta Lynch
What is freedom? What is slavery? Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say No, in so far as laws are natural,… — Mikhail Bakunin
A healthy church is not a church that's perfect and without sin. It has not figured everything out. Rather, it's a church that continually strives… — Mark Dever
Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding before us. Biologists… — Louis Agassiz
Pornography. . .overtakes lives, causing loss of the Spirit, distorted feelings, deceit, damaged relationships, loss of self-control, and nearly total consumption of time, thought, and… — Linda S. Reeves
Every man, every art, has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with little and many lies. — Romain Rolland
Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great — Benjamin Franklin
White lies are ushers to black ones. — Frederick Marryat
What bothers me is that Jim Bakker lies. Jim Bakker knows for a fact that I was virgin. — Jessica Hahn

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